best vehicle to tow

[popsgrams]

I have a Road Trek RV.What vehicle is best to tow behind my motorhome. One to drive when motorhome is park. Some say a jeep.

[RVMike]

I have a 1972 Baja Bug that I rebuilt several years ago. Good on gas and goes anywhere. Mine has a lot of fiberglass on it and weights 1800lbs full of gas. It is also my daily driver at home.

[tenbear]

To me, the best car to tow is your daily driver. In my case it's a Subaru, manual transmission. Easy on gas and goes anywhere.

[dieharder]

The Chevy HHR is a great vehicle to tow. I loved mine.

[Jim_Shoe]

My first RV was a Roadtrek. If I were you, I'd rent one first. They may be better now than the one I had. For starters, it was on a Dodge chassis. Dodge went belly up. Maybe the running gear is better now. It was terribly underpowered. It would downshift going over a bump in the road. (Slight exaggeration).
I fell in love with everything doing double duty. The dinette was also the bed. The toilet was also a closet. the kitchen was also the shower because that's where the drain was. And all the double duty were things were compromises.
But the biggest problem for me was that I'm a visitor. The CG is just where I park to see what I came to see. More than once, when I returned to the CG, my spot was taken. So I had to pack everything up just to go to the grocery store. Finally, it took two parking spaces on the street, often having to feed two meters, and it was too high for a parking garage.
I traded it in for a 'C', pulling a Jeep Wrangler toad. Now I'm happy and I hope that whoever got the Roadtrek is happy, too.

[4X4Dodger]

A very very popular car to be towed is now the little Fiat 500.

They are light, cheap, well made,can be towed 4 wheels down and are deadly cute.

Other than that my personal choice would be an Aston Martin Vanquish

[EsoxLucius]

Bobbo wrote:

EsoxLucius wrote:
No way a Road Trek based on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter has a towing capacity of 8000 lbs. Expect a 5000 lbs. towing capacity.

Find good info on potential toads here: http://www.royrobinsonrv.com/rv-towing-guide-washington

You can take that up with Roadtrek. Scroll down to specifications. This is the Roadtrek 190.

http://www.roadtrek.com/models/190-popular/

OP didn't specify the Road Trek model. MB Sprinter versions will be limited to 5,000 lbs. The Chevy versions will tow more. Thanks!

[rockhillmanor]

1. Find out what your RV is rated for towing.

2. Find a toad that is as light weight as you can find. The game is NOT what car you can find that is closest to the lbs you're RV is rated to tow. :R

You want your RV driving to be fun and not a pain pulling a heavy toad around trying to get up hills, steep grades, and putting a load on the engine of your RV, etc.

Also I would suggest you buy a car that YOU LIKE and will 'also' be of good use on a daily basis when not being towed by the RV.

I have a Chevy Tracker. They are a pretty popular choice with RV'ers because they are light weight. Mine is also a 4x4, 4-door which can seat 5 and when back seats down allowing a huge cargo area. So keep in mind how many are in your family and how well they will all fit in the toad and how much cargo space you want.

That said. Another tip is: When looking at cars do NOT listen to any salesperson if it can be towed 4 down or not. They don't know and will lie thru their teeth to make a sale. Seen it first hand.

The "owners manual" is the bible, it will tell you if the car can be towed four down. It's listed under "Recreational Towing" in the manual. So push the salesman aside and go for the glove box for the car's manual to find out before you buy it!

Good Luck finding the perfect toad.

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

I say Bugatti Veyron.

[ncrowley]

The vehicle GVWR is 9600 labs. The GCWR is 16000 pounds. This means you have 6400 pounds for the contents of the RV and anything you are pulling. My Jeep Rubicon is 4500 labs. This leaves you 1900 pounds for whatever you put in the RV and the Jeep - this includes fresh water, the people, food, clothes, dishes, etc. It sounds like you will be fine.

[navegator]

Depending on what you intend to do with the towed vehicle, are you just going to go sight seeing, running around town or you want to go of the beaten path and need a 4x4 vehicle.

If simple around town driving a simple car will be good and if you want to go off road on a jeep jamboree and climb rocks get a 4x4, what ever you find make sure that the RV has the pulling capacity and stopping capacity to stop both.

navegator

[Bobbo]

EsoxLucius wrote:
No way a Road Trek based on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter has a towing capacity of 8000 lbs. Expect a 5000 lbs. towing capacity.

Find good info on potential toads here: http://www.royrobinsonrv.com/rv-towing-guide-washington

You can take that up with Roadtrek. Scroll down to specifications. This is the Roadtrek 190.

http://www.roadtrek.com/models/190-popular/

[EsoxLucius]

No way a Road Trek based on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter has a towing capacity of 8000 lbs. Expect a 5000 lbs. towing capacity.

Find good info on potential toads here: http://www.royrobinsonrv.com/rv-towing-guide-washington

[Bumpyroad]

I towed a Dakota P/u , chevy trakker, and set up my VUE to tow. be sure to check the owner's manual under recreational towing or towing behind a motorhome to confirm your choice. avoid anything that needs a drive shaft disconnect or tranny pump to tow it.
bumpy

[Bobbo]

I looked RT up and saw an 8,000+ pound towing limit. You can tow most anything you want to. Personally, I like Subarus, but they have to be manual transmission. You can not tow a Subaru automatic transmission except 4 wheels up on a trailer.

What you need to do is decide what you want in a car OTHER THAN towing. When you have those parameters, you can narrow that list down to just the towable cars.